s05e03 — Identity Crisis

Since childhood, I've been used to Leslie Nielsen playing in comedy series. It turns out that earlier in the series he often appeared in the role of spies, so his appearance was already a hint that the series would be associated with espionage showdowns.

A great series.I'm always glad to see the basset hound and the mention of it, Falk played 100% here, I'm waiting for his car to fall apart and his creepy pink suit to tear) In fact, a series without jambs finally, well, if you don't count the CIA))

He really looks like a bum in some episodes - hungry, shoots pencils and matches and does not return it)) not a car, but a bucket with nuts.

Still, it's more like real professionalism to cling to the killer almost immediately. But due to the fact that he never suffered punishment, somehow everything feels blurred and crumpled. After all, judge for yourself - for the first half hour, Columbo quickly finds the killer and a bunch of all sorts of accompanying evidence, for the last half hour he deals with the FBI and builds a picture of what happened. God only knows what was in the middle. Probably, then he carefully did not notice the extremely pale white wiretapping van.
But when such menacing men drove up to the park and slowly went to Colombo, peacefully chatting with the girls and eating a hot dog, to be honest, I expected absolutely any scenario - all equally formidable and dangerous even. That's it, that word is danger.

It's kind of weird that one actor plays different characters in the same series. There probably weren't that many actors in the 70s.

No, Columbo couldn't solve this case. No clear evidence. And detectives are no match for spies. And in vain the man confessed that he knew the dead man. The photo is not proof of dating.

The worst episode so far. The accusation is based on nothing at all. They shouldn't have done this experiment.

How unusual it is to see Patrick McGowan after playing such a prim, religious military man in the role of an ordinary, secular agent)) However, the series is very unsuccessful. Here, from the very beginning, circumstances do not place us in the limited space of the "Colombo killer", but there are some conspiracies, special services, all of this, of course, very disperses the effect of the series..